Today, George Osborne will make his autumn statement. We don’t know yet what it will contain, but it’s pretty clear that it will include further severe cuts to the welfare budget.
This morning, Tim Farron has written for the Huffington Post about how the Liberal Democrats would approach this year’s spending review, including five things we would like to see in the autumn statement:
- £250million of additional spending on mental health
- Stopping the Tax Credit cuts
- Investment in enterprise
- A real commitment to investment in new infrastructure
- Proper analysis of the impact